Throsby, K orcid.org/0000-0003-4275-177X (2018) Giving up sugar and the inequalities of abstinence. Sociology of Health and Illness, 40 (6). pp. 954-968. ISSN 0141-9889
Abstract
Sugar is increasingly supplanting fat as public enemy number one in public health campaigns, and calls for significant reductions in consumption have provided fertile ground for the proliferation of popular texts and services advocating sugar abstention. This article explores three modes of popular sugar abstention (evangelical, experimental and charitable). These vary in chronology, philosophy and the intensity of abstention, but all serve as sites of identity production and self‐entrepreneurship for those able to advocate for, and engage with, them. The article argues that these abstention narratives are not only premised on the exercise of social privilege, but that they also necessarily reproduce and sediment those social hierarchies. This is achieved through a combination of nutritionism and healthism, dislocating sugar and its consumption from the vast social, economic and environmental inequalities within which both the consumption of sugar, and the act of giving it up, is made meaningful.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Throsby, K. (2018), Giving up sugar and the inequalities of abstinence. Sociol Health Illn, 40: 954-968., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12734. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | food; healthism; obesity; inequalities/social inequalities in health status; lifestyles |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Leverhulme Trust Not Known |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 13 Feb 2018 16:21 |
Last Modified: | 16 Apr 2019 00:43 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/1467-9566.12734 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:127241 |